Washing-machine



A. BURNETT.

WASHING MAGHINE.

I 4 d W N m a w e 1 M I e -shown in Fig. 1.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

ASBUBY BURNETT, OF BIG SPRINGS, KANSAS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,141, dated November 29, 1887.

Application filcd February 12, 1887.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ASBURY BURNETT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Big Springs, in the county of Douglas and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing- Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the ac companying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in washing-machines; and it consists in the detailed construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view thereof on the line as 00, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail view with parts broken away.

In carrying out my invention I employ a preferably oblong tub or receptacle, A, which is provided on either side with upright bars a, slotted in their upper ends, as at a, into which open slots or recesses (4 formed in the sides of the tub or receptacle, as shown. These upright bars are grooved on the inner surfaces of their opposite sides,wherein slide shaft hearing plates or blocks 11, the outwardly-project ing lips of which slide in said grooves, as These plates or blocks have the upper ends of coil-springs b b secured thereto, the lower ends of said springs bearing in the ends of the slots at of the upright bars a.

B is a horizontally-disposed shaft, the narrowed ends of which rest upon the bearing plates or blocks 11, and said shaft has secured between apertured lugs or protuberances b on its upper surface a frictional roll, 0, the purpose of which will appear further on, To this shaft are secured two downwardly-projecting bars or rods, 0, which are connected at their lower ends to an ordinary rubber, D. Two outwardly-projecting normally horizontallydisposed bars, d d, are likewise secured to said shaft and to a crossbar, d, the ends of which cross-bar have secured thereto the upper outer ends of suitable inclined bars, which are also secured to the rubber D, the whole comprising the operating-handle.

In the bottom of the tub or receptacle are Serial No. 227,389. (Model) secured, in any suitable manner, a series of revolving wooden rollers, E, the narrowed shaft-like ends of which bearin grooves formed in the connecting-pieces, as customary.

Midway between the shaft B and a circular cross-piece, e, is secured a strong coil-spring, F, the ends of which are secured in apertured bolts f, working in the sides of the tub or receptacle, whereby the tension of the spring may be regulated as may be desired.

G is a removable pressurebar, which is designed to be placed in under the coil-spring F, and to rest at one end on the upper surface of the cross-piece e and the other end upon the frictional roll 0 on the shaft B. It is ob vious that this arrangement will have the effect of causing the removable pressure-bar to bear down upon the shaft B, against the action of the coilsprings of the shaft bearing plates or blocks, and in practice, when heavy or cumbersome clothes are undergoing the washing operation, the passage of the same between the revolving rollers E and the rubber D will be readily permitted by raising the outer end of the pressure-bar against the action of the spring F. By moving the operating-handle the washing of the clothes will of course be accomplished in the usual manner. When it is desired to loosen or tighten the tension of the spring F, the same is effected through the agency of the apertured bolts f, to which the ends of said spring areconnected, as before stated.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the tub or receptacle, the shaft, and the rubber, of the spring, the circular cross-piece, and the removable pressure-bar disposed in under said spring and bearing on said shaft and cross-piece, all arranged substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the tub or receptacle and the rubber, of the shaft, the frictional roll, the spring, the cross-piece, and the pressure-bar bearing on said cross-piece and roll, substantially as shown and described."

3. The combination, with the tub or receptacle and the slotted bars, of the shaft, the spring held bearing plates or blocks, the

spring, the circular cross-piece, and the pressdle, all arranged substantially as shown and re ure-bar, substantially as shown and described.

4. lhe combination, with the tub or receptacle, the slotted bars, the spring-held bearing plates or blocks having lips sliding in grooves of said. bars, and the circular crosspiece, of the shaft, the frictional roll, the spring, the pressure-bar, the rubber secured by bars to said shaft, and the operating-handescribed.

In testimony whereof I affix my slgnature in presence of two witnesses.

ASBURY BURNETT.

Vitn esses I. S. CURTIS, W. A. BINNS. 

